In 2012 there were a handful of previews and demos for BlackBerry 10. Has anyone ever taken the time to look back at them at see what are some of the things that were demoed or previewed but never made it into the final release? Well, here are some of them...
1. Look at the curved icons for Reply, Reply to All and Forward. Also notice there is no blue separator line for the back button.
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To be honest, I'm sorry these icons didn't make it.
2. Look at the bottom-left key on the virtual keyboard.
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Personally, I prefer the final one.
3. Notice there are icons on the Active Frames. Also of note, there is no navigation bar for your app pages etc. under the Active Frames.
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I guess for me, it doesn't really matter either way.
4. There was a "Universal Inbox" which eventually evolved into the "BlackBerry Hub"
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This one is a nobrainber. The Hub is many time better.
5. The Peek Gesture for notifications was originally on the right side.
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It seems more natural for my eyes to fall on the left side of the device during a peek. That could just be my familiarity with the gesture as it is though, so I can't say for sure if one is better than the next. What I can say, is I prefer my Hub to the left and my Apps to the right.
6. Whatever happened to this multi-layer peek?
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Originally, if you opened an email from the "Universal Inbox" and then opened an attachment from within that email, when you did the peek gesture, it allowed you to see bits of not just the message, but also the inbox. Having not used the feature personally, I can't say how practical it was in terms of screen-sizes etc. but I can say that it look really cool.
I'll be looking for more features that never made it, and updating this thread accordingly, but this is what I've found so far. Please feel free to add anything you found, or share your views on what was already discovered.
EDIT #1
7. App Grid to the left of Active Frames. Hub (Universal Inbox) to the right.
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This was implied before but not pictured so here it is. Would take a lot of getting used to now, but I suppose if this is what were launched it would seem natural then.
EDIT #2
8. The Hub as we know it today was called MailBox with a grey Top Header
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Not a big change. Still pretty much the same Hub and functionality.
9. There was a drop down menu from the Title Bar in the Calendar, like how the Hub works
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Although this is absent now, we do have a left side menu that wasn't there before. However, this drop down has an option called "People" which the Calendar current appears to no longer have.
10. There was a "People" option in the Calendar to see all the people you had meetings with in a particular day.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h37m53s56.png
this looks like a pretty cool feature to have.
11. Notice the Grey title bar in BBM
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h41m05s202.png
Not a big change. And it seems this was a system wide change and not just a BBM thing.
As I can only attach 12 images to a post, I will continue the list further down the page.
1. Look at the curved icons for Reply, Reply to All and Forward. Also notice there is no blue separator line for the back button.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h31m40s221.png
To be honest, I'm sorry these icons didn't make it.
2. Look at the bottom-left key on the virtual keyboard.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h34m16s104.png
Personally, I prefer the final one.
3. Notice there are icons on the Active Frames. Also of note, there is no navigation bar for your app pages etc. under the Active Frames.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h35m17s222.png
I guess for me, it doesn't really matter either way.
4. There was a "Universal Inbox" which eventually evolved into the "BlackBerry Hub"
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h36m32s111.png
This one is a nobrainber. The Hub is many time better.
5. The Peek Gesture for notifications was originally on the right side.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h36m43s196.png
It seems more natural for my eyes to fall on the left side of the device during a peek. That could just be my familiarity with the gesture as it is though, so I can't say for sure if one is better than the next. What I can say, is I prefer my Hub to the left and my Apps to the right.
6. Whatever happened to this multi-layer peek?
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-11h37m20s243.png
Originally, if you opened an email from the "Universal Inbox" and then opened an attachment from within that email, when you did the peek gesture, it allowed you to see bits of not just the message, but also the inbox. Having not used the feature personally, I can't say how practical it was in terms of screen-sizes etc. but I can say that it look really cool.
I'll be looking for more features that never made it, and updating this thread accordingly, but this is what I've found so far. Please feel free to add anything you found, or share your views on what was already discovered.
EDIT #1
7. App Grid to the left of Active Frames. Hub (Universal Inbox) to the right.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-14h22m39s144.png
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-14h23m07s212.png
This was implied before but not pictured so here it is. Would take a lot of getting used to now, but I suppose if this is what were launched it would seem natural then.
EDIT #2
8. The Hub as we know it today was called MailBox with a grey Top Header
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h25m57s34.png
Not a big change. Still pretty much the same Hub and functionality.
9. There was a drop down menu from the Title Bar in the Calendar, like how the Hub works
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h32m56s122.png
Although this is absent now, we do have a left side menu that wasn't there before. However, this drop down has an option called "People" which the Calendar current appears to no longer have.
10. There was a "People" option in the Calendar to see all the people you had meetings with in a particular day.
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h37m53s56.png
this looks like a pretty cool feature to have.
11. Notice the Grey title bar in BBM
vlcsnap-2014-01-04-17h41m05s202.png
Not a big change. And it seems this was a system wide change and not just a BBM thing.
As I can only attach 12 images to a post, I will continue the list further down the page.